{"id":762204,"date":"2026-06-16T04:39:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T04:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/762204\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T04:39:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T04:39:23","slug":"nba-draft-rumors-darryn-peterson-going-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/762204\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Draft Rumors: Darryn Peterson going #1?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.ksl.com\/nba\/utah-jazz\/darryn-peterson-work-out\/574863\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to Ben Anderson<\/a>, Darryn Peterson\u2019s camp is \u201cvery confident they are going #1,\u201d and this is the reason for the change of plans to work out with the Utah Jazz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Does this mean that Darryn Peterson is avoiding Utah because he doesn\u2019t want to play in Utah? It doesn\u2019t look it. It appears that this has everything to do with him wanting to be the #1 pick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u2026there has been \u201cplenty of communication\u201d between the Jazz and Peterson, and the Kansas guard was not \u201ctrying to avoid Utah at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">This is definitely the biggest tell that maybe the Wizards aren\u2019t as locked in on AJ Dybantsa at #1 as we thought. Shams Charania has also continued to talk about this story and says that \u201cboth AJ Dybantsa and Darryn Peterson believe they will be the #1 pick in the draft.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">How this affects the Jazz is who they end up drafting. It has been clear since before the NBA lottery that the two best prospects in this draft are Dybantsa and Peterson. When Utah landed the #2 pick on lottery night, their pick was always going to depend on who the Wizards picked at #1. So, how this changes things for Utah is whether they are printing Dybantsa or Peterson jerseys next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">On a side note, the idea that Utah would somehow pick Boozer at #2 keeps getting floated by NBA media like Bill Simmons and Kevin O\u2019Connor, but this has always been a two-man draft at the top between Dybantsa and Peterson. Utah will get whoever the Wizards don\u2019t pick, and you can bet they will be happy either way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Ben Anderson, Darryn Peterson\u2019s camp is \u201cvery confident they are going #1,\u201d and this is the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3785],"tags":[7,423,43914,6,422,427,3972],"class_list":["post-762204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-utah-jazz","tag-basketball","tag-jazz","tag-jazz-draft","tag-nba","tag-utah","tag-utah-jazz","tag-utahjazz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116757945610947887","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}